build: lay the compiled bytecode out from a recorded profile

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scripts/build.ts now passes scripts/swarmail.order to Bun's --bytecode-order, so the bytecode a run needs sits together in the executable. The profile is part of the source hash, so --if-stale rebuilds when it changes. Bun before 1.4.3 ignores the flag; a build with Bun 1.4.2 produces a working binary (checked).

bun scripts/train-bytecode-order.ts records the profile again: it builds the server from scripts/train-entry.ts (exits normally on SIGTERM, which is when the runtime writes the profile), runs a short MCP workload against a scratch database and port, and copies the profile in. Bun matches functions by a hash of their syntax, so a profile from older sources still applies.

Measured on Bun 1.4.3, same source and fixture, --compile --bytecode with and without a profile (5 to 6 accepted server runs and 4 hook passes per variant, one host):

Metric	Change
hook rearm peak memory	-5.4% to -5.7%
hook context cursor peak memory	-17.6% to -17.8%
Idle server memory	-4.7% to -5.2%
Peak server memory	-3.2% to -4.3%
Start to healthy, request latency, CPU, hook wall time	no clear change

A quick recheck with the profile this script records matched the profile used for those figures (hook memory 23.4 against 23.3 MiB, plain 25.0 MiB; the absolute figures depend on the measuring setup).

• bun run check, bun test (1216 pass, 0 fail, 7 skip)
• test/build.test.js on Bun 1.4.2 (CI's version): passes, training test skipped
• CHANGELOG.md entry under Unreleased
• Nothing names a private project or repository, a local path, a home directory or a credential

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance
  • Builds now use a tuned bytecode layout on Bun 1.4.3 and later. Measurements showed 6%–18% lower peak memory for hook commands and 5% lower idle-server memory, with no clear change in startup time or request latency.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for regenerating the bytecode-order profile after changes to startup behavior or frequently used calls, and noted the Bun version requirement. Older Bun versions build without using the profile.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The build now hashes and applies an optional bytecode-order profile. A training script generates a profile by running a server workload. Tests and documentation cover profile use, training, and reported measurements.

Changes

Bytecode Profile Build and Training

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Profile-aware build and validation scripts/build.ts, test/build.test.js, README.md, CHANGELOG.md	The build hashes the profile when it exists and passes it to Bun. Tests check profile hashing and build output. The README documents profile use and regeneration, and the changelog records performance measurements and Bun version support.
Profile training workflow scripts/train-bytecode-order.ts, scripts/train-entry.ts, test/build.test.js	The training script builds and starts a server without a profile, checks server health, runs a 20-round MCP workload, and saves the generated profile. Tests check the generated profile on supported Bun versions and platforms.

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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to baf25

The rebuild instructions now cover profile changes. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed change.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bc919

The change remains primarily local build tooling, with limited security exposure. However, training can inherit settings that access non-training state, and its readiness check does not establish ownership of the selected server endpoint. Database isolation and existing network controls substantially limit the risk.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: Training is not fully scratch-local when XDG_STATE_HOME is inherited. The normal server startup resolves its registration directory from that variable and prunes expired ended registrations there, even with SWARMAIL_RETIRE_DAYS set to zero. This introduces an unintended non-training-state mutation path under the invoking account; actual host exposure depends on its environment.
• Low · reliability · inferred: The trainer releases its temporary port before starting the child and accepts any successful health response at that address. If another server claims the port, the readiness check can succeed without checking child failure, allowing the workload to create registrations and messages in a non-training database before profile generation fails. This is a local ownership and failure-containment risk, not a demonstrated remote attack.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported exposure is local to the training host and the invoking account's existing permissions: scratch mail data, configured registration state, and an optionally configured lifecycle source. A port collision can additionally direct synthetic workload writes to another reachable local MCP server. The inspected paths do not establish remote reachability or new privilege acquisition.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The concrete state-boundary issue is inherited XDG_STATE_HOME flowing through stateHome and registryDir into startup pruning. The pruning implementation predates this PR, but the new training caller reaches it outside the advertised scratch boundary. Deletion requires old modification times, an ended registration older than fourteen days, and successful locking; active registrations are not established as deletion targets.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The training server retains the existing loopback binding and browser Origin validation. Tool failures propagate through the trainer's HTTP, JSON-RPC, and isError checks. These controls limit network exposure and prevent explicit workload failures from silently publishing a profile, but do not prove endpoint ownership or complete filesystem isolation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Failure containment is strongest before profile publication: ordinary exceptions leave the target untouched and clean scratch resources. Publication interruption or concurrent writers can leave an inconsistent build input because copying is not explicitly atomic; compilation failure still preserves the previously installed binary. No bypass of a security control through malformed profile data was established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Give training an explicit environment policy: place XDG_STATE_HOME under scratch and intentionally disable or replace production lifecycle and mutation settings rather than inheriting them implicitly.
• proposed — Bind readiness to the spawned instance, explicitly handle parent termination, and publish profiles through an atomic replacement with a defined concurrent-writer policy.

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✅ Passed checks (6 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: arranging compiled bytecode using a recorded profile.
Description check		The description explains what changed and why, documents the profile-training workflow and measured impact, and addresses all required checklist items in the repository template.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Suppressions Explained		The pull request adds no lint, type-check, or formatter suppression directive. The added stdout: "ignore" is a subprocess I/O option, and test.skipIf(...) controls test execution; neither suppress…
Interface Changes Documented		The diff does not add, remove, or rename an MCP tool or argument, and it does not change a swarmail command or flag. The new --bytecode-order option is passed to Bun, not to the swarmail CLI. Th…

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🟡 Minor · Include profile changes in the --if-stale instructions. · README.md:450-452

README.md:450-452
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Include profile changes in the --if-stale instructions.

If a contributor retrains scripts/swarmail.order, sourceHash changes and --if-stale rebuilds the binary. The current sentence excludes that trigger. Add the profile to the list so contributors know to rebuild after retraining.

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Review comment at @README.md around lines 450 - 452:
Update the `--if-stale` rebuild description to include changes to
`scripts/swarmail.order` as a trigger, alongside source files, manifests or
lockfiles, and the Bun version.

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- Around line 450-452: Update the `--if-stale` rebuild description to include
changes to `scripts/swarmail.order` as a trigger, alongside source files,
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Review: #130 (review)
Head: baf25e9
Reason: Fixed in baf25e9. The README sentence on --if-stale now lists the bytecode-order profile among the inputs that trigger a rebuild; sourceHash already includes scripts/swarmail.order.